French airport employee 'devastated' after helping latecomers with five children board doomed EgyptAir flight MS804

An airport employee at Roissy Charles de Gaulle is reportedly "devastated" after helping a family with five children board the fateful EgyptAir flight last night after they arrived late, according to French media reports.

Sonia, as the staff member has been called, is still unsure whether the family made or missed the flight.

"It was a family, parents with five children: four girls and a boy.," she told RTL radio.

"They turned up at Terminal 2, where I work. But EgyptAir operates from Terminal 1, so I showed them how to get there," said the employee.

"The father was started to get stressed because he could see the time and that they had been mistakenly dropped off at Terminal 2 by the taxi. I could see the dad was stressed so I said: 'Don't worry, I'll try and call the company to see if they can exceptionally wait for you'. That's something I never normally do."

She put in a call and told them to hot foot it to Terminal 1, but didn't follow up to see what happened next.

"And so they left. I hope they didn't make it. One of the girls even said to her father, 'Listen dad, if we make it, we make it and if we don't we'll just take the next one. That's all there is to it.'